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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Plagiarism

Sunday, March 23, 2008

As a general rule, the assignments in my courses do not require secondary research or reading. I teach second and third year level courses that are largely introductions or surveys in social, political and legal theory. If I were teaching advanced courses, I would most certainly expect secondary research or reading, but in introductory courses [...]

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Bear convicted of theft

Thursday, March 13, 2008

I began reading E.P. Evans’ classic book The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals at bedtime this week as part of my relatively new interest in animal-human relations in general, but, more specifically, attempts to distinguish humans from other beings in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Imagine my surprise at reading the [...]

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